Chapter 11.
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CHAP. 11.— An act making appropriation to supply deficiency in amount required for expenditure to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for examination and surveys required by acts of March third, eighteen hundred anti seventy-five, and June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to ascertain depth of water and width of channel of .South Pass of Mississippi River, also for gauging the waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries.Mar. 12, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiency appropriations, South Pass of the Mississippi River. 18 Stat., 465. 20 Stat., 169.
That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to wit: To supply deficiency in amount required for expenditure to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for examinations and surveys required by the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five and June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to ascertain the depth of water and width of channel secured and maintained from time to time by James B.
Eads at South Pass of the Mississippi River, and to enable the Secretary of War, to report to Congress during the maintenance of the work, six thousand dollars. Gauging waters of the Mississippi River. 16 Stat., 598.To supply deficiency in amount required for expenditure to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for gauging waters of lower Mississippi River and its tributaries: For annual expense of gauging the waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, con tinning observations of the rise and fall of the river and its chief tributaries, as required by Joint Resolution of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, two thousand one hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. That the moneys hereby appropriated shall be immediately available. Approved, March 12, 1884.